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The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-09-06
WILL PURCHASE GROUNDS.
Talk About Having an Exposition
i'm Connection With the
Fair.

All the fair business has been COM
pleted and various plans concerning
next years meeting are being suggest
ed. But the one of general interest
to the public is the movement TO pur-
chase grounds. Secretary Montgom-
cry said this morning that this plan
was meeting with favor by all the
members and thong bit that grounds
would be purchased at all hazards.
The BAzoo would be glad to see this
order of things brought about and be-
lieve the public at large will heartily
indorse the action. Relative to an
exy osition in connection with the fair
Mr.. Montgomery expressed the opin-
ion that it would be a good addition
but doubted it being a profitable one.
Numerous cities throughout the coun-
try with fewer population than Sedalia
Oxford an exposition and with the
proper effort and management Sedalia
can have an exposition that will
startle the state.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-09-06

Yesterday, young man was sent
to the county Jail. charged with Sc.
cretly taking away his baggage from
Mrs. Merkle's, who held it to secure
money he was owing for board. The
fellow has quite history. He was
arrested in Sedalia under the name of
Lewis Brown and has been sailing un-
der false colors here. His true name
is William Martin, and he is a fugi-
tive from justice. His people live near
Manistree, Mich, and where Martin
formerly resided. About five months
ago he was arrested for committing All
outrage on a woman by the name of
Ella Boshee at MaDistee and pend
ing his trial he ran away leaving
bondsmen in the lurch. He has been
lodging about the country ever since,
keeping out of the way of the officers
and detectives, who have been ON his
track, and he is now landed in the
county jail under sentence that will
hold him there for, at least, twenty
days. 1t is not unlikely that the Mich
igan officers will be here, by that time,
and he will be extradited and return
ed to the scene of his crime. The Sc
dalia officers who arrested him, and
unearthed the facts are entitled to
much credit.
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Notice of Special Election.

Lemuel s. Murray, the Sheriff of this
comfy, having died, and a vacancy hav-
ing occurred in the office of Sheriff, it is
hereby ordered by this court that special
election be, and the same is hereby called,
of the qualified voters of Pettis county,
Missouri, 10 be held at the regular voting
place in each precinct in the county, on
the 18th day of September, 1887, to elect
a successor to said L. s. Murray, in the
Office of Sheriff, and fill said vacancy.
1t is further ordered that said election
be held in pursuance of the election laws
regulating general elections in this State,
and that copy of this notice be published
in some newspaper In the county OF Pettis,
more than twenty days before the date Of
said election.
The voting places OF the county are as
follows. viz:
Heath Greek Township, at SCOTS school
house.
Longwood Township, Longwood
Houstonia Township, at Houstenia.
Blackwater Township, Higgins school
house.
Lamonte Township. LamOnte.
Dresden Township, Dresden.
Cedar Township, Georgetown.
Bowling Green Township, Beaman.
SmithtOn Township, Smithton.
Sedalia Township, Courthouse.
Prairie Township, Glover school house.
Elk Fork Township, Usual school
house.
Green Ridge Township, Green Bidge.
Washington Township, May school
house.
Flat Creek Township, Walnut school
house
Lake Greek Township, Catholic school
house.
Hughesyille Township. Hughesyille.
By order of the County Court, this 18th
day of August, 1887.
Attest. L. +. MITCHUM.
S-2is&wtd Clerk County Court.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-09-06
AN INCIDENT.
How Young ROtherick's Father
Was Hung to Make Him
Give up Money.

The arrest of young Payne for
stealing a horse in. st. Clair county,
belonging to Charles Rotherick,
brought to light an item of news that
may have heretofore escaped the eyes
of the BAzoo readers. 1t seems that
about Two years ago, young Rother-
ick's father, who lived alone with his
son, in secluded place on the Usage
river, was attacked by robbers, and
hung by the neck in his own house,
three times, to make him disclose the
Whereabouts of 500 or $500 that he
was supposed to have in the house.
Who these robbers were, is to this
day unknown. They secured about
$50, in gold from the old gentleman,
and while his father wsa being strung
up, young Rothrick was tied with his
arms behind his back, and laid on the
floor, a helpless witness to the outrage
committed on his father. The fact of
this brutal conduct on the old man,
was to give his system such shock,
that the day before Payne stole the
horse, the old man died, and it was
while the family were at the funeral,
that the horse in question was stolen.
Some suspicion was attached to young
Payne that he was mixed up in the
hanging of old man Rosherick and the
robbery. If this was the case, and the
matter is never found out he will at
least, get his deserts for horse stealing,
in the Pettis criminal court. Payne is
now in Jail, in default of bond.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-09-06
CONSCIENCE STRUCK.
Steals Twenty-Five Cents Worth
of Sweet Potatoes Twenty
Years Ago.

One of the most peculiar illustra
tons of what mans conscience will
compel him to do has just come to
light in this city, In the year 1865
Samuel Wright, of the firm of S.
Wright & Son, East Third street, the
butchers and grocers, was in the
same business iu the town of Win.
chester, Pennsylvania, and during
that time boy-for he must have
been boy twenty years ago evil
ently-stole some sweet potatoes to
the value of twenty-five cents.
Whoever he may be there was born
within him a nobIer nature than the
average thief, for it appears that the
act he committed, though a small
ofense, haunted him day by day and
year after year. Not knowing it is
presumed that where Mr.. Wright was
located he used every endeavor to find
his place of residence. At last he did
learn and at the same time the heavy
yoke he had been carrying dropped
from his shoulders as he firmly re-
solved to correct the wrong of his youth
by enclosing twenty-five cents with
the following explanatory note.
Westchester, Pa, July, 1887.
To Mr.. Samuel Wright:
Dear Sir:-Many years ago when you
lived in Westchester and kept a store on
Market street, used to steal sweet pota-
toes. AS | do not know how many took
nor do | know how they sold, venture TO
send you twenty-five cents in stamps; that
may paw you. Please say nothing about
it as / would not wish it to be published.
No name is signed to the letter and
Mr.. Wright is wonderfully at a loss
10 know who stole his potatoes.
1t is a most extraordinary
circumstance of conscience proving a
true moral guide. Perhaps the youth
full thief after grown into manhood
was struck by one of Sam Jones
emotional exhortations or the Saliva
ton army, and influenced to retract
the step of his thoughtless childhood.
Mr.. Wright will reduce the price
on sweet potatoes in lieu of his I'M
looked for good luck. Repent We
ere it is too late"
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THIEF IDENTIFIED.
Andy j. Payne Taken Before
Justice Halstead This
Afternoon.

Last week the BAzoo contained an
account of horse stolen from Charles
Rothrock, ofSt. Clair county, about
sixty-five miles south of this city, that
one Andy Payne had been arrested
on suspicion of committing the thief.
A letter was written to Rothrock by
Prosecutor Lamm, informing
him that a man answering the de-
scription of Payne had been arrested
and requested Mr.. Rothrock to come
here and identity him. This morning
he arrived and was told to identify
his horse, which he did without any
hesitancy. Andy Payne is % years
old and has always born a good repu-
tation. His father is an old and re-
spected farmer, of St. Clair coun-
ty, and his sons unfortunate
act will no doubt bring sorrow to his
gray hairs, The young man was taken
before Justice Halstead this afternoon
for examination.
He was committed to jail in default
of $500 bond, to appear before the
November criminal court. When
asked by a BAzoo reporter this after
noon what prompted him to commit
the act, he replied: "Oh, l reckon
Its because l haven't got any more
sense
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Let us shake hands over this and my

Let US shake hands over this and my
promise.
Summers then shook hands with
court, attorney and spectators and
walked out of the room proudly sing.
ing
"Oh I'll never get drunk again you bet,
I'll never get drunk any more;
But down to sobriety and hard work get,
And pull for prosPerity's shore.
Charles Jones and Lester Suffer sat
on the victims bench solemnly gazing
on the proceedings of the hour. Both
young. fair looking, but Suffers head
is badly shaped for straight goods.
These two boys have been cooks
with Doris circus. They left the
circus at Usage City, Kansas, and
are on tramp.
The judge took a long and lingering
look at the youths and said in a trem-
ulOus voice:
"What are these sons of their moth
ers charged with ? | don't like to pass
sentence on the youth"
/ think of the days when their mothers
eyes
Looked down ON each baby face,
And maybe to-day from beyond the skies
Those eyes look again-on this place.
Marshal-Late hours and trespass.
Judge What is your plea, Charles
Jones?
Jones--Guilty.
Judge-What is your plea, Mr..
Suffer?
Sutter-Guilty.
Judge-Three dollars each, and
don't you forget what law means in
Sedalia.
Fred. Bokee was fined $40 by the
court for disturbance of the peace.
This is a family quarrel between the
Boxes and Bowlys on East Fourth
street.
"Twas just little family scrap
With language somewhat gritty"
But just the kind that's apt to "drap"
Some fines in for the city.
Judge-Is this all--is my occupa-
ton for this morning gone?
Marshal-That ends the chapter,
but your pay goes on all the same.
The court pulled out a
red cotton bandana, wiped
his eyes and then the glasses of his
spectacles, took the cross out of his
legs, spit at knot hole in the floor
and said with eyes bulged out and
nostrils distended:
"Court has adjourned for to-day.
Violators and sinners had better steer
clear of me, as / am bad man from
Pisgah, Cooper county, Missouri.
Hear me ?"
Oh hear me say that court is Ger
For saint as we'll as sinner,
The marshal now can cease to snore
And go partake of dinner.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-09-06
Menagerie Attached.

Howe's great London circus has
gone, but the menagerie still fingers
in our midst Last Saturday the lat
ter was added to the main show, but
owing to some misunderstanding the
owner of the animals, E. E. Jones,
replevied them and stored them on
West Main street, where they are 10
Gated until the owner can hunt up
money enough to start out for himself.
Tie menagerie is composed of four
Monkeys, one Ant-eater, Flocky lie.
mar, a dog, two MeCaws, two Tiger
Cats, two four-legged Coons, one Sill.
yer Wolf, one Black Bear, and four
cages. The BAzoo thinks the circus
a good one for the price, and will vel.
come its return to Sedalia.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-09-06

At 1890 o'clock last night j. ID.
Yandellaged "a years. died at No. 64S
East Twelfth street of that terrible
disease consumption, after an illness
of nearly one year. The remains
were sent to Green Ridge this morn
ing where the burial took place this
afternoon.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-09-06
Splendid SERVICE.
An Accurate Description of
Sedalia's WaterwOrks
Plant.
When Completed Will BE Eqnal
to Any i'm the State of
Missouri.

The water works plant when COM
pleted will consist of three high SER
vice pumping eugines-two compound
duplex pumping engines, with a ca
pacity of 100000 gallons of water
daily; also one compound duplex con-
densing engine with a capacity of / :.
600, 900 gallons daily. These three
pumping engines have a combined
daily capacity of four and one half mil
lion gallons of wafer and will be ample
to supply the city of Sedalia with a
population of $1,000 Peep e, allowing
90 gallons per day for each inhabitant,
which amount is used only in cities
where vast amount of manufacturing
is going on. In addition to the above
pumping machinery, there are two
duplex pumping engines for low SER
vice with capacity of 5000, 900
gallons daily. These engines will
pump water from the river into set
ting and filtering basins and the large
storage reservoir. The works are
equipped with four steel boilers sixty
inches in diameter and sixteen feet
long, any one of which with the use
of one pumping engine will supply
the city with all the water necessary.
Each boiler is capable of supplying
sufficient steam with easy friug to run
the pumping engines, leaving in re-
serve at all times three boilers
and three pumping engines. The
boilers are fed with water
through feed water heater, saving
at least twenty per ceut in fuel, the
water before entering boilers being
heated to two hundred degrees. One
steel stand tower has been erected and
will be filled with water about the
first of September. The tower is fif-
teen feet In diameter and one hundred |
and twenty-seven feet high, built en-
tirely of steel and anchored to a ma
sonry foundation with twelve one and |
three quarter bolts secured to the ends
of six brackets that extend eleven
teet high on the tower and eight feet |
feet out on the foundation which is
built of stone laid on cement. The |
tower is so constructed as to with
stand wind pressure of one hundred
and thirty miles an hour. The capt.
tai on the top of towers will add to
their appearance and no
doubt they will be the
most handsome structures of the
kind in the state. These towers are
not provided with long unsightly guy
rods as are those Of other cites. The
fire hydrants are made by r. ID. Wood
& Co., of Philadelphia and are the
Mathews patent which are conceded
to be the best as well as the most ex-
pensive. Each hydrant is provided
with two discharges for two and one
lalf inch hose, also steamer connect
on of five inches. The reservoir at the
works will have capacity of 9,OOO,-
300 gallens of water and in connection
with the five filters through which the
water will have to pass will insure for
he future and unlimited supply Of
pure, clear and wholesome water.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-09-06

The workmen, in excavting in the
cellar on corner of Ohio and Second
streets, for the new Dempsey build
ing, to-day struck stream of very
clear palatable water, which runs at
the rate of $50 barrels every twenty.
four hours. Mr.. Dempsey is very en-
thusiastic over the find and will make
a reservoir and supply the building
with water from his own cellar.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-09-06
AN OLD RASCAL.
An Old Man of Seventy Steals a
HOrse-A Remarkable Char
acter of a HOary Headed
Tramp.

Some time last spring an aged
tramp, named Mediation, dropped in
at the farm house of David F. Pal
mer, some five miles east of Sedalia.
He was employed ON the farm of Mr..
Palmer. He continued in his employ
until few days ago, the 18th inst.
when he borrowed horse from VIM.
Madison, cOlored man, also i'm the
employ Of Palmer, to come to the
State Fair, since which time he has
not been heard from.
A little incident In connection with
Mediation, showing something of his
character. will not be out of place
here, to show the nerve of a man sew
enty years old.
After the corn was laid by, this
summer, the Palmers and some others
with Mediation, got up a fishing ex-
cursion to the Lamine river. The
party started early and arrived at the
Lamine about daylight, and prepared
for days sport. McHai ton, by some
means, had provided himself with a
dynamite cartridge, with which to
kill fish. After the party were well
settled in camp, Mediation produced
the dynamite and ignited the fuse,
holding on long enough, so that it
would explode about the time it reach
ed the waters of the Lamine. The
hero of this item held on too long and
the cartridge exploded, blowing
McHatton's right hand off.
The fish went unhurt and the days
pleasure was marred. The wounded
man was put into buggy and started
for Sedalia, twenty miles distant. On
arriving at Sedalia, DIR. w. III. Evans
amputated the old fellows arm at the
elbow, and he returned to the Palmer
farm to work. The arm healed in
remarkably short time and old
McHatten seemed but little the
worse for his dynamite experience.
Mediation is a remarkable char
acter, and 1t is possible that he never
gave the Palmers his correct name.
He told many fabulous tales about
himself. He said he was native of
London, England, and emigrated to
America with his parents when a
child. He claimed to have a wife and
a large landed and stock interest in
the Indian territory, but that he could
not reside there, because of some of
the many scrapes he had been into
therein other words he was such
devil among saints that his absence
was most coDgenial with his personal
safety. This is from his own mouth
and must be taken with much consid-
Grafton for the truth.
1t is supposed that Mediation, with
the stolen horse has gone into south
west Missouri or Kansas. VIM. Mad |
son, the owner of the horse has show.
cred the postOffices In that county
with postal cards in hopes of etfecting
his capture.
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Married.

On Sunday morning at the resi-
dence of MIR. Pemberton, Fifteenth
and Kentucky streets, Charles Bailey,
of Benton county and Miss Arth usa
Smith. of this city. The ceremony
was performed by Rev. NJ. NJ. Davis,
of the Christian church.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-09-06
Wool Wool Wool Wool.

Highest price paid for wool at Soda
liza Wooden Mills see US before you sci
their store is on the Corner Second and
Usage streets where they have a full stock
of groceries and DARRELL salt by the car
load also large stock of home manu-
featured wooden goods at manufactures
prices. 4l2w3m
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More cases of sick headache, bilious
ness, constipation, etc., can be cured in less
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ALI dental work warrented 6rst-class.
Extraction cents.
THos. III. WILSON.
Ohio street between Third and Fourth.
5-24wl2t.
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Farmers! Farmers,

Put up your teams at the new Feed
stable lust opened on Second and Kentucky
7-I2w-2m w. A. MCNULTY & Co.
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sound of q hunters shot They,disap-
peared as if by magic, and left only the
Sheriff, his horse, Long Jim and couple
of bystanders. The colloquy which fol-
lowed was amusing as well as instructive
Sheriff (still rubbing his head and sizing
the bump on the back of it with his fingers5
Yes, sneak away like lot of thieves!
know you. See if don't fill the county
Jail with batch of you devils before long.
This is murder in the first degree, and my
evidence will hang somebody. say, Jim,
did you hit meS
Long Jim (still caressing his rifiel-Not
yet. Georgy.
sherif-No; and you'd better not com
mence. tell yer. You had better stink
away with the rest. This was murder, and
don't you forget it. Bill was entitled to g.
fair trial and justice.
Long Jim tscornfully)-Fair trial and
justice?
sheriF-Yes, fair trial and justice. by
c..
Long Jim-Where do you git them
things? Not in your legal circuit, old boy.
You kin git lawyers jaw and Jege Waggle-
waggle. Justice? Nary Justice Now.
Georgy, JUST close up your head-I mean
the front of it. Go and get the Coroner.
and don't tell what yer don't know-do
YOU lulnu
left Long Jim laying down.the law, and
the Sheriff listening, and / judge that the
argument used was convincing, for the pa
peIs day or two afterwgrd announced the
verdict of the Coroner as - unsuitable hom-
icide, while escaping from the Sheriff and
his posse"
AS | passed the spot where the victim
was lying, the pitiable pathos of the silent
figure was increased By the woman that
bent above it and sobbed, Oh, Bill" and
kissed the knotted fingers that had often
struck her in anger. But human Justice
has this trait with the divine, that it makes
the innocent suffer for the sins of the
guilty.
This is the only time l ever met Judge
Lynch, and must admit that the meeting,
although short, was impressive. and /
never see one of those Judges which
political conventions furnish shut
fling and trifing with the scales
of Justice-slipping his fingers down
upon the beam-but fancy | see behind
him the Court pageant of that other timer
ant Judge-with his rope and unerring rifle
i mean Judge Lynch.-Hcnry Hooper in
Cincinnati Commercial Gdsette.
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Carl Dundar's Philosophy.

1t / find man who yhas honest und
copyright doan' go back on him because
he eats NIT his knife.
When somepody comes to me und saws
dis worldt yhas all sham ind dot all men
vhas dishonest, ! dean say nottings. 1
look leedle out dot he doan' steal my beer
glasses und deceive ME ply his lies.
Some men Will lay for you for dozen
years, und some time When you shtub your
toe dey Will slump in ind shudge your
whole character by der remarks INDUCED
in at dot time.
1t vhas pooty easy to wonder how dis
mans or dot mans gets along SO well and
dondt work, but We doan' stop q leedle to
see II be doan' wonder der same nit us.
II an oldt man comes to me ind asks if
he should get married again I tell him it
vhas all right. 1t vhas one of der vhavs
he can make a fool of himself according TO
law.
Maybe it vhss all right dot some mans
vhas very rich md some very poor. If dis
vhas not SO der poor mans would have
nothing to compare himself to und no care
for wealth.
Some eafnings When ! vhas in my own
house tramp comes along ind shtrikes
me for quarter to get nights lodging. l
owe him nothing, und he vhas fraud but
l gif it to him because if he schump
in der river und l vhas on der Coroner's
shury it damage me fife dollar.
When some peoples meet NIT troubles
dey vhas all knocked to pieces, ash if it
vhas totally unexpected. l belief dot der
Lord expected troubles und minfortunes
for der whole human race, und dot der
man who ships aroundt 'em vhas too
mean to go to heafen
Der line between ignorance ind vice
vhas so narrer dot der want of nickel
Will push man oafer. Not dot some ig-
norant men vhas not honest, but dot igno-
rance Will make man pellet dot der
yhorld owes him living. When he gels
dot idea he vhas ready to shteal der living
which der worlds owes someyody else =
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